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Women have got the leadership to look after eight polling centers in Myagdi district. Female returning officers have been assigned to take care of eight polling centers out of the total 120, said the office of the chief returning officer. The move means to make polling centers for the upcoming elections to the House of Representatives and the Province Assembly inclusive, said assistant returning officer Tej Prasad Paudel. The voting is scheduled for November 20. The polling center in Beni Municipality-2 has got all female employees including the returning officer and assistant returning officer. "We have put women in priority in selecting employees for the polls," he said. The polling centers that have got female returning officers include the ones at Mukti Marga Secondary School, Ghar (B), Takam Secondary School, Takam (A), Ram Chandra Secondary School, Arjam, Rastriya Secondary School, Neptechaur (B), Janapriya Secondary School, Darbang (A), Himal Basic School Patlekhet, temporary center prison and Mangala Secondary School, Babiyahcaur. This has encouraged women employees assigned for the elections. "I am glad to have taken this responsibility for the polls," said a returning officer, Ambika Sharma. Meanwhile, the office of the chief returning officer has urged all to make polling centers disabled people friendly.

The main opposition CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli is scheduled to address the election assemblies in Sindhuli and Chitwan on Monday. The UML Secretariat said that Oli will head towards Sindhuli after addressing the election assembly in Chitwan. Earlier on Sunday, the former prime minister addressed the election assemblies in Kalikot, Dailekh of Karnali, Surkhet. On Saturday, he addressed three election assemblies in Doti and Kailali of Sudurpaschim Province. He has been urging the people to vote for UML to protect democracy, sovereignty and nationality. The ruling coalition has forged an electoral alliance against the UML. The UML has forged electoral alliances with Janata Samajbadi Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party in some places. The elections to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly will be held on November 20.

The Central Code of Conduct Monitoring Committee of the Election Commission has directed the district-based election code monitoring bodies to curb aberrant activities or organization of feasts and parties or disturbing the peace by any election candidate and political parties likely to harm the election environment. A meeting of the Committee held on Sunday directed the district code monitoring committees to also keep a tab on activities such as making threat, coercion and enticement to anyone and to immediately inform about the same in case such activities are found committed by anybody. It also instructed the district-based election code monitoring committees, the Election Officer and the Monitoring Officer to promptly initiate action on matters that call for such action. The meeting was chaired by Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari, who is the Coordinator of the Central Election Code of Conduct Monitoring Committee. Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya and Commissioner Ishwori Prasad Poudel were also present in the meeting. Likewise, the Nepal Police has been directed, through the Ministry of Home Affairs, to prohibit the sale, distribution and consumption of alcohol during the election silence period (48 hours before the start of the voting and until the completion of vote counting) and to confiscate the contraband if be required as per the existing laws. The meeting also directed the Monitoring Officer and District Code Monitoring Committee to submit to the Central Code Monitoring Committee or to the Election Commission within three days a report on the complaints related to the code violation received so far, the clarification sought in that connection, the clearance of the complaints and the status of action initiated till date.

The Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA) has urged all 753 local levels to provide their buildings, premises and physical structures for the November 20 elections to the House of Representatives and the Province Assembly. The Ministry on Friday issued a circular and directed to this effect, said Chiranjabi Nepal, section officer at the Ministry. It has also asked them to promptly swing into action in this regard. It acted on the request by the Election Commission to help manage buildings, premises and physical infrastructures belonging to all 753 local levels for the polls.